By Jesse Ritcey, ‘Next Generation Naturalists’ Program Manager. This article appeared in BC Nature Magazine, Summer 2019 BC Nature is starting to go gray. That’s been the observation locally and what we’ve been hearing from other clubs. Yet it is not as if young people are disinterested in the environment. Witness the climate protests Greta Thunberg has inspired and the high volume of social media activity around issues like plastic in the ocean and the disappearance of pollinators. There’s a disconnect between all that energy and participation in our organization.
Continue reading →Request submitted by Rachel Canham who is a MSc. candidate at Simon Fraser University Rachel Canham MSc. Candidate rcanham@sfu.ca. Centre for Wildlife Ecology Department of Biological Sciences Simon Fraser University I work for Environment and Climate Change Canada with the Canadian Wildlife Service. I was hoping you and the members of the Kamloops Naturalist club might be able to help out with one of our projects. Every 5 years we survey Osprey nests upstream and downstream of Kamloops. In May we look for nests that are active and incubating adults, and … Continue reading →
There have been reports of Striped Coralroot recently so I will repost this story from April of last year.
There is a group of wildflowers that have learned how to cheat photosynthesis. This allows them to simplify physical structure and eliminate the work of making chlorophyll and their own food. It confers a significant survival advantage in low-light forest conditions.
Article submitted by Nancy Flood, President of the Kamloops Naturalist Club. This year, the Kamloops Naturalist Club staged a smaller event for the clean-up of the Dewdrop/Rosseau Creek Wildlife management Area compared to 2018, when we advertised more widely and a number of other groups joined in organizing the clean-up, providing lunch, etc. This year we did it pretty much on our own, with assistance from the Grasslands Conservation Council. About 38 volunteers came out and worked very hard for approximately three hours. We collected (according to the city staff … Continue reading →
The following resolution submitted by the Kamloops Naturalist Club was approved unanimously by club representatives who attended the BC Nature Annual General Meeting in Duncan, May 2-4, 2019. The resolution was written by Nancy Flood and is supported by 27 references to the scientific literature and various reports. Gary Hunt attended the meeting and participated in the discussion prior to the vote.
Continue reading →See also the notice under Events. The Kamloops Naturalist Club will be holding its annual cleanup of the Dewdrop Flats area on Sunday, May 12. We will be meeting on the Dewdrop flats, 3.5 km in on the Frederick Road. To get there, take Tranquille Road past Cinnamon Ridge and turn right onto the Tranquille-Criss Creek Road. Cross the tracks and stay on the road for 4.3 km and turn left onto the Frederick Road at the hairpin turn. Continue straight along the road for another 3.5 km and you … Continue reading →